To the editor: A letter author complained that Proposition 36 would “drag California again to failed ‘robust on crime’ insurance policies.” (“The Prop. 36 campaign just showed its true Republican colors,” letters, Oct. 18)
He’s apparently unaware that legal guidelines like “three strikes” and the appliance of gang and gun sentencing enhancements took hundreds of power criminals off the streets for lengthy intervals of time, ensuing (for one instance) within the numbers of homicides within the metropolis of Los Angeles falling from greater than 1,000 in 1992 to slightly greater than 300 in 2023.
That could be a “robust on crime” success, not a failure. It was the “mushy on crime” pushback that Proposition 36 seeks to deal with and swing the pendulum again to larger public security.
Criminals belong in jail. Interval. Full cease.
Greg Meyer, Los Angeles